Passwords are both the bane and the backbone of your online life. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanners have brought us closer to a password-less future, but we’re not there yet. Most websites ...

Passwords are both the bane and the backbone of your online life. Facial recognition and fingerprint scanners have brought us closer to a passwordless future, but we’re not there yet. Most websites ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

Nowadays, passwords are needed for just about everything, whether it’s online shopping, reading the news, or just scrolling social media. But this can be tiresome, and many of us are guilty of taking ...

When engineer Bill Burr from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote in 2003 what would soon become the world’s gold standard for password security, he advised people and ...

Bank accounts, social media profiles, streaming platforms and even smart refrigerators require passwords these days. Keeping track of a laundry list of passwords can ...

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